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Exploring 'This New Sea'

A former space shuttle pilot looks at the special qualities the U.S. naval services have brought to the exploration table in 100 years of naval aviation and 30 years of shuttle flights.

In a bold speech at Rice University on 12 September 1962, President John F. Kennedy set the tone for the decades of space exploration that would follow. He said, in part: “We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.”

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